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Record Nr.

UNINA9910478935003321

Autore

Downing John (John Derek Hall)

Titolo

Radical media [[electronic resource] ] : rebellious communication and social movements / / by John D.H. Downing ; with Tamara Villarreal Ford, Geneve Gil, and Laura Stein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c2001

ISBN

1-322-28292-7

0-8039-5699-1

1-4522-2109-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (441 p.)

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Radicalism in mass media

Social movements

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 396-421) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I - Concepts: Radical Media Intersect Media Theory; 1 - Popular Culture, Audiences, and Radical Media; 2 - Power, Hegemony, Resistance; 3 - Social Movements, the Public Sphere, Networks; 4 - Community, Democracy, Dialogue, and Radical Media; 5 - Art, Aesthetics, Radical Media, and Communication; 6 - Radical Media Organization: Two Models; 7 - Religion, Ethnicity, and the International Dimension; 8 - Repressive Radical Media; 9 - Conclusions; 10 - Public Speech, Dance, Jokes, and Song; 11 - Graffiti and Dress

12 - Popular Theater, Street Theater, Performance Art, and Culture-Jamming13 - The Press; 14 - Mind Bombs: Woodcuts, Satirical Prints, Flyers, Photomontage, Posters, and Murals; 15 - Radio; 16 - Film and Video; 17 - Radical Internet Use; III: Extended Case Studies; 18 - The Portuguese Explosion:The Collapse of Dictatorshipand Colonialism, 1974-1975; 19 - Italy: Three Decades of Radical Media; 20 - Access Television and Grassroots Political Communication in the United States; 21 - KPFA, Berkeley, andFree Radio Berkeley; 22 - Samizdat in the Former Soviet Bloc



23 - A Hexagon by Way of a ConclusionReferences; Index; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

'Radical Media' analyses radical media and movements worldwide from dance and graffiti to video and the Internet, and from satirical prints and street theatre to culture-jamming subversive song, performance art and underground radio.